Timothy frank kelly



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T. P. KELLY.'

GANTBEN.

No. 321,730. Patented July 7, 18s-5,.

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NITED STATES ATENT EEIcED TIMOTHY EEANK KELLY, OE EOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOE, EY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO SAID TIMOTHY E. KELLY AND MICHAEL R. GATELY, OF SAME PLACE.

CANTEEN.

SPECIFICATIDN forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,730, dated July 7, 1885.

Application led hlarch 2, 1885.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be itknown that LTIMOTHY FRANK KELLY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Canteens; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following speciiication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whichd Figure l is a front elevation, Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sect-ions, and Fig. 4 a side view,ofa canteen provided with my invention, the nature of which is detined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In the said drawings, A denotes a bottle or Canteemelliptical or otherwise suitably formed inits transverse section, and having below its bottom a a chamber, B, made by such bottom and an extension of the sides of the canteen below it. There is projected upward from such chamber at its central part to the top of and through the canteen a chimney or tube, C, that opens through the top as well as through the bottoln of the canteen. Vithin the said chamber B, at its opposite ends, are two spring catches, D D, whose locking-projections Z) are extended, as shown, through holes c in the ends of the chamber. At the top onfntheheanteen is a lling-Vneck, d, furnished with a screw'c'ap or cover, e'. Beneath the lower end of the canteen is a lamp,"E, having its wick-tube f immediately in line with the chimney, in order that. when the lamp is raised into the chamber B the said wick-tube may extend within the chimney. The lamp is arranged in a cover or cap, F, adapted to `tit to and receive within it the lower part of the canteen. From this cap or lamp-carrier there project upward two jaws, G, that embrace the opposite sides of the canteen, and are perforated with holes g g, to rcceive the locking-projections 7), there being in each jaw two such holes, one near its top and the other near its bottom. The lamp is for the purpose of heating any liquid charge of the canteen. On a person grasping the can teen with one hand, and with the thumb and third Iinger of the other spanning the two locking-projections and pressing them inward, and at the same time pulling the lampcarrier downward relatively to the canteen, the lamp will become exposed, to enable its (No model.)

wick to be inflamed for heating the canteen, the smoke and gases of the flame passing upward through the chimney, and in so doing heating it. r1`he heat absorbed by the chimney will be imparted to the uid around it. rIhe educt of the chimney I usually have much smaller in diameter than the induct, in order for the smoke and gases escaping from the wick of the lamp to be retained a suitable period wit-hin the chimney to impart to it most if not all of its heat.

A canteen as above described will be found to beuseful to soldiers, Sportsmen, artisans, or workmen, and may be provided with the usual means of slinging it on the body of a person.

I do not claim a dinner-pail constructed as represcnted'in the United States Patent No. 227,3G9,in which the lamp-holding catches are arranged wholly inthe outer side of the article, and are of such nature as not to admit of the lamp being adjusted to different distances from the vessel over it, as is the case in my canteen, in which the catches are within the lamp-holding chamber; nor do I claim a canteen constructed as represented iu the German Patent No. 7,291, for 1878 and 1879, in which the lamp by its catches cannot be adjusted to more than one position with respect to the vessel or reservoir over it. By having the catches within the canteen chamber at its lower part, and having the jaws G G extending up from the lamp-carrier and provided with sets of holes for engaging with the cutters, the lamp of my canteen can be adjusted to different positions with respect to the canteen, as set forth.

I claimrIhe combination of the canteen provided with the chimney extending upward through it, and also with the spring-catches and their chamber in and arranged in its lower part, as

described, with the lamp and its carrier having the perforated jaws to embrace the canteen, and provided -with sets of holes g, to engage with the catches, all being substantially as set forth.

TIMOTHY FEANK KELLY.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, ERNEST B. PRATT. 

